People have been saying this for years. With every new invention, people are put out of work. But also with every new invention, new jobs are created. The hard part of being able to realize this, and believe that everything is going to work out is that it requires you to trust that things that don't yet exist will continue to be invented. And it is human nature, to not be able to see very far beyond in the future.
In 50 years, quite a few of the jobs that exist today will no longer be around. But as we replace humans with robots and technology progresses, the prices on many items will come down and things that were impossible to do on a mass-market scale now become possible!
If he worked 8 hours a day. That's roughly 3,000 items per hour. 50 per minute. I think that's reasonable. If the PO worker worked at a job like that long enough, I think it is a safe assumption to make that the employee could handle 1 piece of mail per second. How long can it take to read a zip code / address and throw it in a bin?
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I agree, any solution to spam that relies on replacing the SMTP protocol is bound to fail for this reason. The current issues with IPv6 migration should prove to everyone that the strategy of rip-out and replace does not work. I think what needs to be explored are added backwards-compatitable extensions to the protocol. Perhaps adding a few commands for whereby some sort of public key exchange is involved.
I sincerely doubt that any self-respecting business owner would risk the jail time of a serious felony just to make a few extra bucks. People may be greedy, but they are generally not that stupid.
Because when the ISP fails to protect it's users privacy, their customers will no longer trust them. They will move to another provider.
All of the ISP's know what is happening on their networks. Especially those providing broadband services, know that if the RIAA is successful in shutting down the P2P networks, it will remove a lot of the incentive for customers to pay for broadband. The cost of complying is probably minor compared to the cost of lost revenue from customers leaving those services.
My Answer: 1. Retired Racing Greyhounds For Dummies
I cannot fathom them making this into a book. Beekeeping sounds somewhat legitimate, the US citizenship I can see. AOL for Dummies, seems a bit redundant. Business Plans for Dummies is pretty scary, but I can believe it.
I think a reasonable candidate for reading this book might be someone who is fairly technically advanced in Windows, but has yet to be exposed to much of Unix/Linux. While it is true that they could just as easily go the route of learning Linux via Red Hat, Mandrake or some other distro, some users might prefer to go with a more 'truer' Unix distro.
A good example, might be a developer at a software company that makes enterprise software, but only runs on Windows so far. The company might want to try porting their software to multiple platforms, but get their developers familiar with the environments beforehand.
This standard is not for external accessories. It is for components inside the phones.
"The wireless industry has a long history of forming such alliances, which aim to shorten development time and reduce production costs. But the Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance, announced Tuesday, is the first to address the microprocessors inside handhelds, which are now doing more complicated tasks such as sending and receiving photos, said Tom Vial, a marketing manager at TI."
Because when the Bureau of the Census screws up the information in their database for an individual, it makes narry a blip in their aggregrate stats. When the FBI screws this up, you may have agents busting your door down for no legitimate reason other than the computer says you may have links to terrorism.
This may be the news item you were referring to about Verio. "June 25, 2003 - Verio, a subsidiary of NTT Communications (NTT Com) and a leader in global IP solutions, today announced it will be the first Internet service provider in the United States to deliver large-scale connectivity in North America of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the next generation communication platform for Internet data traffic. The pre-commercial service is available immediately. "
I think this is a good thing. Hopefully the use of DNS and Reverse-DNS will become much more prevalent, and we can forget all about using IP's.
Btw, you can get on the IPv6 network now. Join the 6bone. You don't even need a native IPv6 provider, you can use 6over4 to connect to the network over an IPv4 only network.
It is interesting that they chose FireWire over other technologies. But what about the use of Ethernet? I believe FireWire is limited to a range of around 30 feet, unless you have a repeater.
Would it be possible to build a Firewire-to-Ethernet adaptor product that allows 2 firewire enabled devices to talk to each other over Ethernet, with two adaptors on each ?
I administer a mailing list for a small business that sells products online. The list is about 10,000 in size, and it is 100% opt-in. Though it's not a double opt-in (with a confirmation), all subscription requests by end users are queued. Then we process the queue every few days, if anything looks out of wack, we delete all the suspicious entries.
I wonder how many drug dealers would respond if they saw an advertisement saying "Call the local police station and give us your name to see if you're on our current drug dealer watch list." Almost sounds like entrapment.
It is the EFF providing this service. Not the RIAA as your comment seems to imply.
The price of the software and services will go down. Sure the CEO will get a nice bonus, but if they don't cut their prices their competitors who are also doing the same thing will. Then their customers will move to the competitors.
If you keep your prices artificially high, unless you are a monopoly, sooner or later someone else will come along and do it for cheaper. And then you will be out of business.
Personally, I think the IEEE has filled this role and done very well up to now. Why the need to get the politicians and diplomats from the UN involved?
But it is not always clear in spam emails, just who the selling company is. And you cannot always just go after the company who produces the products being sold. There is a company that has been sending out spam recently offering to sell various copies of Norton Anti-Virus. Symantec has tried to track down the vendor, but has not succeeded as far as I know.
By tightening the protocols, we eliminate a need to even bother doing detective work to find out who is actually behind the company selling the products, because the email won't even reach your inbox.
There are issues that need to be resolved with the protocol, but I think that the IETF task force will be able to come up with a reasonable solution to this part of the problem.
>You'll end up having to blackhole entire countries to staunch it.
This is not as bad as it seems at first. Those countries blacklisted will be forced to take action themselves. It is no different than the controls we have in place for immigration, and importing and exporting. If you come from a country where there is no problem, you normally have no problem. However, if your passport comes from a country that is not on the best of terms with the host country, perhaps say North Korea or Libya (I am probably going to get flamed for choosing them as examples), then you are bound to run into stricter and stiffer controls or filters.
It is possible, this could lead to inefficiencies though if all sorts of nations start to blacklist each other. But this is unlikely as the private sector would run most of this.
Legislation is not going to take out all of the spammers. In fact most of them will remain. But by forcing them offshore, to use proxies, and seek alternative methods we are making it harder and more expensive for them to do business. Spam is not going to be taken out in one swoop. It will take legislation, enforcement and probably changes in the protocol.
But every little bit helps. When they are forced to use proxies, all sorts of problems start to come up. None of them are insurmountable for the spammers but they do create obstacles. Their bandwidth is limited by the trojan proxy's connection, and they open themselves up to criminal charges for hacking. They run the risk of hitting the wrong computer, perhaps a machine administered by a particuraly ruthless and short-tempered sys admin.
An interesting experiement might be to see how difficult it is to set up a honeypot to catch the spammers using proxies.
A voting scheme is different than allowing individual users to choose each song they want to hear. As was the scheme put forward by the author of the article.
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People have been saying this for years. With every new invention, people are put out of work. But also with every new invention, new jobs are created. The hard part of being able to realize this, and believe that everything is going to work out is that it requires you to trust that things that don't yet exist will continue to be invented. And it is human nature, to not be able to see very far beyond in the future.
In 50 years, quite a few of the jobs that exist today will no longer be around. But as we replace humans with robots and technology progresses, the prices on many items will come down and things that were impossible to do on a mass-market scale now become possible!
If he worked 8 hours a day. That's roughly 3,000 items per hour. 50 per minute. I think that's reasonable. If the PO worker worked at a job like that long enough, I think it is a safe assumption to make that the employee could handle 1 piece of mail per second. How long can it take to read a zip code / address and throw it in a bin?
I agree, any solution to spam that relies on replacing the SMTP protocol is bound to fail for this reason. The current issues with IPv6 migration should prove to everyone that the strategy of rip-out and replace does not work. I think what needs to be explored are added backwards-compatitable extensions to the protocol. Perhaps adding a few commands for whereby some sort of public key exchange is involved.
I sincerely doubt that any self-respecting business owner would risk the jail time of a serious felony just to make a few extra bucks. People may be greedy, but they are generally not that stupid.
Wearable wireless networked devices the size of your watch. You could check your email while sitting in a pool!
Because when the ISP fails to protect it's users privacy, their customers will no longer trust them. They will move to another provider.
All of the ISP's know what is happening on their networks. Especially those providing broadband services, know that if the RIAA is successful in shutting down the P2P networks, it will remove a lot of the incentive for customers to pay for broadband. The cost of complying is probably minor compared to the cost of lost revenue from customers leaving those services.
I wonder how many people will pick up this book thinking it has something to do with the similarly titled movie.
My Answer: 1. Retired Racing Greyhounds For Dummies
I cannot fathom them making this into a book. Beekeeping sounds somewhat legitimate, the US citizenship I can see. AOL for Dummies, seems a bit redundant. Business Plans for Dummies is pretty scary, but I can believe it.
I think a reasonable candidate for reading this book might be someone who is fairly technically advanced in Windows, but has yet to be exposed to much of Unix/Linux. While it is true that they could just as easily go the route of learning Linux via Red Hat, Mandrake or some other distro, some users might prefer to go with a more 'truer' Unix distro.
A good example, might be a developer at a software company that makes enterprise software, but only runs on Windows so far. The company might want to try porting their software to multiple platforms, but get their developers familiar with the environments beforehand.
This standard is not for external accessories. It is for components inside the phones.
"The wireless industry has a long history of forming such alliances, which aim to shorten development time and reduce production costs. But the Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance, announced Tuesday, is the first to address the microprocessors inside handhelds, which are now doing more complicated tasks such as sending and receiving photos, said Tom Vial, a marketing manager at TI."
It is too good to be true. The standard they are establishing is for the components inside of cell phones. Not external accessories.
Because when the Bureau of the Census screws up the information in their database for an individual, it makes narry a blip in their aggregrate stats. When the FBI screws this up, you may have agents busting your door down for no legitimate reason other than the computer says you may have links to terrorism.
This may be the news item you were referring to about Verio.
"June 25, 2003 - Verio, a subsidiary of NTT Communications (NTT Com) and a leader in global IP solutions, today announced it will be the first Internet service provider in the United States to deliver large-scale connectivity in North America of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the next generation communication platform for Internet data traffic. The pre-commercial service is available immediately. "
I think this is a good thing. Hopefully the use of DNS and Reverse-DNS will become much more prevalent, and we can forget all about using IP's.
Btw, you can get on the IPv6 network now. Join the 6bone. You don't even need a native IPv6 provider, you can use 6over4 to connect to the network over an IPv4 only network.
It is interesting that they chose FireWire over other technologies. But what about the use of Ethernet? I believe FireWire is limited to a range of around 30 feet, unless you have a repeater.
Would it be possible to build a Firewire-to-Ethernet adaptor product that allows 2 firewire enabled devices to talk to each other over Ethernet, with two adaptors on each ?
I administer a mailing list for a small business that sells products online. The list is about 10,000 in size, and it is 100% opt-in. Though it's not a double opt-in (with a confirmation), all subscription requests by end users are queued. Then we process the queue every few days, if anything looks out of wack, we delete all the suspicious entries.
I wonder how many drug dealers would respond if they saw an advertisement saying "Call the local police station and give us your name to see if you're on our current drug dealer watch list." Almost sounds like entrapment.
It is the EFF providing this service. Not the RIAA as your comment seems to imply.
The price of the software and services will go down. Sure the CEO will get a nice bonus, but if they don't cut their prices their competitors who are also doing the same thing will. Then their customers will move to the competitors.
If you keep your prices artificially high, unless you are a monopoly, sooner or later someone else will come along and do it for cheaper. And then you will be out of business.
Personally, I think the IEEE has filled this role and done very well up to now. Why the need to get the politicians and diplomats from the UN involved?
But it is not always clear in spam emails, just who the selling company is. And you cannot always just go after the company who produces the products being sold. There is a company that has been sending out spam recently offering to sell various copies of Norton Anti-Virus. Symantec has tried to track down the vendor, but has not succeeded as far as I know.
By tightening the protocols, we eliminate a need to even bother doing detective work to find out who is actually behind the company selling the products, because the email won't even reach your inbox.
There are issues that need to be resolved with the protocol, but I think that the IETF task force will be able to come up with a reasonable solution to this part of the problem.
>You'll end up having to blackhole entire countries to staunch it. This is not as bad as it seems at first. Those countries blacklisted will be forced to take action themselves. It is no different than the controls we have in place for immigration, and importing and exporting. If you come from a country where there is no problem, you normally have no problem. However, if your passport comes from a country that is not on the best of terms with the host country, perhaps say North Korea or Libya (I am probably going to get flamed for choosing them as examples), then you are bound to run into stricter and stiffer controls or filters.
It is possible, this could lead to inefficiencies though if all sorts of nations start to blacklist each other. But this is unlikely as the private sector would run most of this.
Legislation is not going to take out all of the spammers. In fact most of them will remain. But by forcing them offshore, to use proxies, and seek alternative methods we are making it harder and more expensive for them to do business. Spam is not going to be taken out in one swoop. It will take legislation, enforcement and probably changes in the protocol.
But every little bit helps. When they are forced to use proxies, all sorts of problems start to come up. None of them are insurmountable for the spammers but they do create obstacles. Their bandwidth is limited by the trojan proxy's connection, and they open themselves up to criminal charges for hacking. They run the risk of hitting the wrong computer, perhaps a machine administered by a particuraly ruthless and short-tempered sys admin.
An interesting experiement might be to see how difficult it is to set up a honeypot to catch the spammers using proxies.
This assumes that the 'good guys' will discover the holes before the 'bad guys' do.
A voting scheme is different than allowing individual users to choose each song they want to hear. As was the scheme put forward by the author of the article.